Registrars

Dr Jonathan Penny

Nurse Practitioners

Denise Barratt

Denise is one of our Advanced Nurse Practitioners.

Penny Munro

Penny is one of our Advanced Nurse Practitioners.

Advanced Nurse Practitioners are highly experienced and educated members of the care team at the surgery. They are trained and qualified to diagnose and treat your health care needs or refer you to an appropriate specialist if needed.

Nurses

Nurse Trish Longden

Trisha is one of our Practice Nurses and also the Practice Community Matron.

Nurse Tracey Hunt

Practice nurses are qualified and registered nurses. They can help with health issues such as family planning, healthy living advice, blood pressure checks and dressings. The practice nurses run clinics for long-term health conditions such as asthma or diabetes, minor ailment clinics and carry out cervical smears.

Karen Hughes

Respiratory Nurse

Healthcare Assistants

Debbie Skae-Bradburn

Kate Candlin

Emma Harrison

Healthcare assistants support practice nurses with their daily work and carry out tasks such as phlebotomy (drawing blood), blood pressure measurement and new patient checks. They may act as a chaperone when a patient or doctor requests one.

The nursing team (left to right), Debbie, Alex, Trish and Kate)

Practice Management

Alistair Rogerson

Practice Manager

Alistair is involved in managing all of the business aspects of the practice such as making sure that the right systems are in place to provide a high quality of patient care, human resources, finance, patient safety, premises and equipment and information technology.

The practice manager supports the GPs and other medical professionals with delivering patient services and also helps to develop extended services to enhance patient care.

If you have a concern, or query that you feel needs to be brought to the practice manager's attention, please contact Alistair directly on: alistair.rogerson@nhs.net.

Gill Francis

Business Manager

Gill is involved in managing all business aspects of the practice and the organisation's finances.

Reception

Andrea Price

Office Manager

Andrea supports the reception team and schedules the workloads to ensure that patients receive the highest levels of customer service and communication.

Our support team provide an important link for patients with the practice and are your initial contact point for general enquiries. They can provide basic information on services and results and direct you to the right person depending on your health issue or query. Receptionists make most of the patient appointments with the GPs and nurses. They also perform other important tasks such as issuing repeat prescriptions and dealing with prescription enquiries, dealing with financial claims, dealing with patient records and carrying out searches and practice audits.

Secretaries

Lisa Amesbury

Lisa works alongside Ann to provide secretarial support to the practice's Doctors.

Ann Baker

Ann, works alongside Lisa to provide secretarial support to the practice's Doctors.

Community Nurses

Our district nurses visit housebound patients at home. For patients who are mobile, they also provide a range of services at the health centre.

Please contact the district nurses on 01298 815116.

Health Visitors

Telephone 01298 812552

A health visitor is a registered nurse who has received training particularly related to babies, children and pregnant women. Their role is to provide families with children under five years old with support and advice around the general aspects of mental, physical and social wellbeing.